About the Yucky Team
Artists
Artist
Josh Campton
Josh Campton - DJ Salt is a disabled artist and proud Larrakia, Wadaman and Karajarri man. Josh has worked with Tutti Arts (from 2015), Back to Back Theatre, No Strings Attached, Restless Dance, Slingsby, SA First Nations Dance Collective and Kurruru Performing Arts. Josh is founding member of the Beats Crew.
Josh Campton and Lorcan Hopper frequently collaborate and perform as DJ Salt and DJ Power – the Culture Brothers. Individually they deliver sets that will get the party started: together they will ramp up the vibe so the party won’t want to end.
(SA, AU) (he/him)
Artist
Sophie Cassar
Sophie Cassar is an artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her practice responds to cultural representations of illness and disability through image and text. Her work has been included in programs at KINGS Artist-Run (2022), Bus Projects (2021), West Space (2017), Gertrude Contemporary (2017), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2017), The Physics Room (2017), and Next Wave (2016).
(Vic, AU) (she/her)
Sophie Cassar’s work has been developed with assistance from Maribyrnong City Council's Western Artists Mentorship Program.
Artist
Makeda Duong
Makeda Duong is a visual artist living and working on Kaurna land. Her current practice attempts to unravel and represent aspects of her lived experience in relation to themes such as race, gender, and mental health. She has exhibited in local and interstate galleries including the JamFactory (2019), Nexus Arts (2020), and exhibited as part of the OzAsia Festival (2022). She was recently invited to participate in the 2024 Tamworth Textiles Triennial. She has participated in the Guildhouse Studios residency and Nexus Arts Studio Residency Program. Her work has been acquired by the Adelaide Migration Museum, and she was the winner of the 2022 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize.
(SA, AU) (she/her)
Artist
Lorcan Hopper
Lorcan Hopper - DJ Power is a proud disabled artist, director and actor, known for The Loop (2019) and Necessary Games (2009). Lorcan has worked extensively with Tutti Arts since 2011. Lorcan is founding member of the Beats Crew.
Josh Campton and Lorcan Hopper frequently collaborate and perform as DJ Salt and DJ Power – the Culture Brothers. Individually they deliver sets that will get the party started: together they will ramp up the vibe so the party won’t want to end.
(SA, AU) (he/him)
Lead Artist
Sam Petersen
Sam Petersen is a queer visual artist, writer and performer and an AAC and power wheelchair user, living and working by the Birrarung, on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.
I’m interested in what can be done with one’s identity and the space around it. Both my body and mind, touching everyday feelings between the rational, the playful and the political. Of course, this is often to do with my disability and my sexuality. My work has been focused on access, and the lack of it — to places, people’s minds and opportunities.
Sam completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2016. Sam has exhibited and performed widely including Liquid Architecture (2019); TCB (2017); West Space (2017, 2018, 2020); Bus Projects (2017, 2021); and Incinerator Gallery (2018). Sam presented a major solo exhibition My pee is political with Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney (2020); and exhibited in Overlapping Magisteria, The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions, ACCA, Melbourne, curated by Max Delany and Miriam Kelly.
(Vic, AU) (you/your)
Artist
Elizabeth Reed
Sign name: Lizard (aka Elizabeth, Liz) from Naarm (Melbourne) is a passionate artist and Teacher of the Deaf. Her love for lizards began in childhood, evolving into care for six blue tongue skink species today. With a Masters in contemporary art, Lizard uses her visual creations to share the deaf-something experience across 20th and 21st centuries. As an advocate for deaf education, she works at a deaf school, aiming to draw attention to the issues facing the deaf community and future generations.
(Vic, AU) (she/her)
Artist
Finnegan Shannon
Finnegan Shannon (b. 1989, Berkeley, CA) is an artist experimenting with forms of access. They intervene in ableist structures with humor, earnestness, and rage. Some of their recent work includes Alt Text as Poetry, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces; and Don’t mind if I do, a conveyor-belt-centered exhibition that prioritizes rest and play. They have done projects with MUDAM Luxembourg, the Queens Museum, moCa Cleveland, the High Line, MMK Frankfurt, MCA Denver, and Nook Gallery. Their work has been supported by a Wynn Newhouse Award, an Eyebeam fellowship, and grants from Art Matters Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Disability Visibility Project. Their work has been written about in Art in America, BOMB Magazine, the Believer, and Out Magazine. They live and work in Brooklyn, NY.
(NY, USA) (they/them)
Facilitators
Facilitator
Rayleen Forester
ACE Associate Curator Rayleen Forester is a Tartanya-Adelaide based arts worker and writer. Rayleen’s curatorial interests focus on cross-cultural engagement and outcomes through experimental curation and programming, performance and writing. Rayleen has worked for major international biennales and art galleries in both Europe and Asia including MANIFESTA9 (Belgium) and MEM (Japan). She co-curated the long-established Artists’ Week symposium with Lars Bang Larsen (Denmark) and Richard Grayson (UK) for the 2014 Adelaide Festival. She has written for publications such as UNmagazine, Artlink, Art Guide and Broadsheet and is a founding member of South Australian initiatives FELTspace and fine print.
(SA, AU) (she/her)
Facilitator
Grace Marlow
Grace has a keen interest in live arts programming, community engagement, and access, and loves when art, food, music and community collide. They remain passionate and invested in localised DIY art scenes, intermittently organising performance, poetry and film events at venues such as REWIND Studios and Ancient World.
Grace is a member of the Deaf Gain collective. The collective, based on Kaurna Country Adelaide, advocates for the celebration and inclusion of local and national Deaf artists and greater access to arts and culture for the Deaf community.
Grace was a co-director of artist-run initiative Sister Gallery (2017–2019), Education and Schools Officer at SALA Festival (2019), and an Associate Producer of Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, Performance Space (NSW) (2023).
Grace is currently the Public Programs Coordinator at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE).
(SA, AU) (they/them)
Facilitator
Patrice Sharkey
Patrice Sharkey is currently Head of Exhibitions and Programs, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria. Prior to this, she was the Artistic Director of Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (2019–-2023); Director of West Space (2015–-18); and Assistant Curator at Monash University Museum of Art (2011–-15). Her most recent curatorial initiatives at ACE include: Justine Youssef: Somewhat Eternal, co-curated by Stella McDonald and Tulleah Pearce (2023-24); Peter Waples-Crowe: PRIDE, co-curated by Dominic Guerrera (2023); and A river that flows both ways: Selected works from the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus (2023).
(SA, AU) (she/her)
Public Program Curators
Public Program Curator
William Maggs
William Maggs is visual artist based in Adelaide, South Australia who uses various mediums including painting, digital art, and drawing. As a Deaf artist, William is particularly passionate about capturing the joys and struggles of being Deaf in his art. From a young age, William discovered his love for painting, which provided him with a powerful creative outlet to express his thoughts and feelings in a way that words couldn't. Currently completing his tertiary studies in Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Effects and Entertainment Design) William is honing his skills to turn his imagination into reality and to explore the complex and nuanced journey of life through his work.
William presented his first solo exhibition in 2021, and has exhibited as part of Flow Festival (2018, 2023). William curated the inaugural Deaf Gain group exhibition at Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Adelaide (2023); a celebration of the local and national Deaf community platforming 9 diverse artists works from South Australia and Victoria.
In 2023, William was awarded Deaf Volunteer of the Year by Deaf Australia recognising Maggs’ ongoing advocacy for the Deaf community nationally; including William’s involvement with Deaf Rainbow NSW during World Pride 2023, and attendance at the 2023 Parliamentary Breakfast where William represented South Australia.
(SA, AU) (they/he/she)
Public Program Curator
Hen Vaughan
Hen Vaughan is a writer and artist living on unceded Kaurna Yarta. With a particular focus on walking arts, site-specific poetics, and critical ideas around health and illness, Hen’s practice has involved working on performances, workshops, walking tours, exhibitions, publications, radio programs and artist camps. Their writing has been published in Runway Journal, fineprint, and Artshub. Hen was an inaugural recipient of the National Gallery of Australia’s Digital Writers Mentorship in 2022.
(SA, AU) (they/them)
Lead Artist
Facilitators
Public Program Curators
Artists
Sam Petersen has been supported by Creative Australia.
The Yucky Public Program Curators are supported by the Government of South Australia through the Richard Llewellyn Deaf and Disability Arts program.
This project is presented and supported by Adelaide Festival.
The Yucky Reading Room is supported by the City of Adelaide.
The Culture Brothers are supported by Tutti Arts.
